British tourist Reece Vella, [right], was arrested Jan 8, in Pattaya Thailand, over the death of Thai prostitute Wannipa Janhuathon [Left], which happened a day earlier, on Saturday

Images showing the final moments of the Thai bar girl who fell to her death from a balcony while allegedly having ‘extravagant sex’ with a former British Army soldier have emerged.
Waitress Wannipa Janhuathon, 26, had been working at a bar in high-risk holiday resort Pattaya, Thailand, for several months while helping to support her family who live in the country’s northeast.
She was found dead at 5.30 am on Saturday morning after falling from a fifth floor balcony while allegedly having what authorities described as ‘extravagant’ sex with 25-year-old former British Army private Reece Vella, from Birmingham, UK.
According to police in Pattaya ‘Mr Vella has been arrested on suspicion of negligence causing others to die, overstaying his [Thai] visa in excess of 59 days and stealing a motorcycle at night’.

He was arrested on Sunday afternoon at 4pm at a nearby bar and admitted having sex with Wannipa in the bedroom and on the balcony. But Vella denies that he was having sex on the balcony when the girl fell.
A police source close to the investigation said today: ‘The area that’s being investigated more is what happened that caused Wannipa to fall.
‘Was she alone or was she having sex at that moment. We think that this kinky sex on the balcony caused her to fall. This is what we are trying to build the evidence to prove. The suspect then ran away.’
As officers continued to question Vella today while gathering evidence, heartbroken friends paid tribute to Joy who was ‘the sweetest angel who was always smiling’.

‘It hurts so much. I miss her so badly. I just can’t accept it and I want her back so much. I wish that right now she can know how much we love her and miss her.’
Gaz Hart, boss of the Sky Bar on the city’s Soi 6, said all the staff had been devastated by the loss as Wannipa ‘was part of the family’.
He said: ‘I keep trying to remember this happy girl. Her smile and attitude always made me happy even when I ‘yak yakked’ at her.
‘I just couldn’t be angry with her even when I wanted to be. I had to try my best not to laugh and be serious but she could see I was holding my smile back so hard and it made her laugh more.
‘My last memory of her is her running over to me laughing, giving me one of the 20 big Joy hugs she gave me every day and yelling ‘Gazzzzzzz what youuuu doooooo!’

Victim: Wannipa Janhuathon posing at the bar balcony and an escalator, just weeks before she fell to her death

‘And showing me a picture of her I posted that she didn’t like while laughing her head off. Myself and the Sky Bar family will truly miss her. And it wont be the same without her here.
‘I cant imagine how her family are feeling right now. A beautiful happy young girl’s life taken too soon.’
Reece’s family, meanwhile, said they were ‘extremely upset’ following his arrest in Thailand, saying he had left Britain months earlier after suffering from PTSD.
The family was concerned for his health, revealing the suspect had not had anything to eat or drink since he was taken into custody on Sunday
The former Army privater, who followed his two older brothers into the military, quit the army allegedly, after suffering from PTSD.   He was discharged after serving for 15 months in the Royal Logistics Corps, and was medically discharged in 2011. During his service, his brother Andrayoss claimed that after leaving the army, Recce suffered with depression and ‘fell into the wrong crowd’, serving a stint in prison.

It also appears he fled jurisdiction of the Worcester Crown Court after being charged with the supply of heroin and crack cocaine. He was due to appear on October 12 last year – but he failed to turn up.
A bench warrant it is still outstanding.

Police searched the empty room – finding clothes and used condoms – then began a manhunt for the woman’s partner amid suspicions that he had fled the scene.
Vella, from Birmingham, West Midlands, was arrested Monday afternoon at the nearby Route CC Roadhouse bar and was filmed in possession of two mobile phones – one of which police claim was Wannipa’s handset.
Showing scant empathy for the victim, Vella’s brother Andrayoss said his family had been devastated by the news and were sure he was innocent.
‘We are in pieces. Extremely upset. My gran is terrified, mum has been crying and dad can’t bring himself to talk about it.
‘He was in the military for a while. All three of us were. He did service for his country.
‘I was able to speak to him very briefly. He obviously very stressed. The authorities are going to transfer him to the city’s main jail soon.
‘When you are in the military you have a family around you to support you, and when he left he fell into the wrong crowd. He was exploited really’ Andrayoss said.
He also said his brother had struggled with drugs in the past and had served a stint in prison.
‘But he had turned his life around,’ he added. ‘He was going to Thailand to make a fresh start.’
He moved from Worcester to Thailand to start a new life four months ago.

He later admitted to police that he had taken the escort back to his rented room and ‘had sex in the bedroom then on the balcony before she fell’.
The reason for leaving his partner unattended and fleeing the scene he said, was ‘distraught’ and returned to a different hotel.
Police Lieutenant Narong Chantra, deputy head of investigations at Pattaya Police, said Vella had been arrested on suspicion of ‘negligence causing others to die’ and fled the scene knowing that he was staying in the country illegally on an expired visa.
‘CCTV from the incident was examined and after checking evidence at the hotel the suspect was found to be Mr Reece Vella, a British citizen, aged 25 years,’ Lt. Chantra said.
‘An arrest warrant was issued after evidence was presented to the court. The police case is that on the day of the incident Mr Vella visited the bar and paid to take Miss Wannipa away.
‘Miss Wannipa and Mr Vella were having very strange, extravagant sex on the balcony until she fell down below and died.
‘Mr Vella was in shock and knowing that he had overstayed his visa ran away and kept her mobile phone in his bag and left the room,’ the police spokesman stated.

Police in their statement claim that the pair had been having what translates as ‘fancy or extravagant’ sex on the balcony before Wannipa fell to her death – along with a packet of Kamagra oral jelly which was found next to her body at around 5.30 am local time.
Sources at the scene said investigation got the clue when they found the packet of Viagra-related gel which fell along with the victim’s  body. The the first clue that Wannipa had not been alone. They believe she had actually been mid-way through sex when she plunged naked to the ground.

Paramedics arrived and performed CPR on Wannipa – who was still alive – but she was later pronounced dead in hospital.